The Making of Men: Masculinities, Sexualities and SchoolingMairtin Mac an Ghaill explores how boys learn to be men in schools while policing their own and others' sexuality. The text focuses on the students' confusions and contradictions in their gendered experiences; and upon how schools actively produce, through the official and hidden curriculum, a range of masculinities which young men come to inhabit. The author attempts to do full justice to the complex phenomenon of male heterosexual subjectivities and to the role of schooling in forming sexual identities. |
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There is a danger of reading the young middle - class men ' s accounts presented
here as confirming the idea that “ progressive ” child rearing produces ineffective
, marginal , unproductive adults ' ( see Smart 1988 : 233 ; Mac an Ghaill 1988a ) ...
There is a danger of reading the young middle - class men ' s accounts presented
here as confirming the idea that “ progressive ” child rearing produces ineffective
, marginal , unproductive adults ' ( see Smart 1988 : 233 ; Mac an Ghaill 1988a ) ...
Page 97
It appears from the accounts of the young men in this study . . . that such talk can
be very unsupportive for the individual . In these groups , young men are
subjected to teasing , having the mickey taken , and forms of collective pressure
to ...
It appears from the accounts of the young men in this study . . . that such talk can
be very unsupportive for the individual . In these groups , young men are
subjected to teasing , having the mickey taken , and forms of collective pressure
to ...
Page 112
Most importantly , they highlighted a major absence in the male teachers ' and
students ' accounts at Parnell School , that of the operation of sexual
micropolitical power relations . It is suggested in this study that contemporary
school ...
Most importantly , they highlighted a major absence in the male teachers ' and
students ' accounts at Parnell School , that of the operation of sexual
micropolitical power relations . It is suggested in this study that contemporary
school ...
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Contents
Teacher ideologies representations and practices | 15 |
Local student cultures of masculinity and sexuality | 51 |
Learning to become a heterosexual man at school | 89 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Making of Men: Masculinities, Sexualities and Schooling |
| Authors | Mairtin Mac an Ghaill, An Gha Mac |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Open University Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0335157823, 9780335157822 |
| Length | 209 pages |
| Subjects | › Education / General |
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